Chelsea and Liverpool started with victory on matchday 16 of the Premier League, taking a break from the negative streak that put pressure on them to win at home.
Los blues They climbed to fourth place in the championship with 28 points and are clinging to the Champions League positions.
Liverpool, for its part, is approaching the top of the table, but still needs to chain more victories to forget about the sporting crisis.
End to Chelsea’s streak
Los blueswho received Everton at Stamford Bridge, ended the game in the first half, with scores from Cole Palmer (21′) and the Frenchman Malo Gusto (45+1′).
Enzo Maresca’s men thus put an end to a streak of four games in all competitions without victory (2 draws and 2 losses) and are five points behind leaders Arsenal, who will close Saturday’s matches against Jhon Arias’ team.
Liverpool recovers a Salah
At Anfield, and with all eyes on the bench, there were those who missed the goal of the redswhen at 45 seconds, Frenchman Hugo Ekitike put Liverpool ahead.
Central defender Joe Gomez, who had assisted Ekitike with a header, had to retire injured (25′), and coach Arne Slot then decided to bring on Salah.
His was the assist, from a corner kick, for Ekitike to score his double at match time (60′).
Salah was even close to seeing the goal again in the final stretch of the match, but served by Federico Chiesa, he sent the ball over the goal (90+3).
This victory, the first in the Premier League after two consecutive draws, sends the reds to sixth provisional position with 26 points, 2 units behind Top 4 which Chelsea provisionally scores.
“Salah raised his combined total of goals and assists in the top flight with Liverpool to 277 on Saturday. After assisting Hugo Ekitike’s second goal in the 2-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, Salah has 188 goals and 89 assists in the Premier League since arriving in 2017,” Liverpool reported in a statement.
*With information from AFP.
